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"V O L A T I L E"

by Ortensia

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1.
This is where it begins , this is day one
 I am! I am a wonderer 
I have witnessed every hatred and I’ve seen every 
desire , I am a wonderer of time 
and time; 
hunts me like ghosts of my past 

No one can see that day in day out 
inside I’m 

Broken , everyday I’m broken 
inside I’m
 Broken , everyday I’m broken 
inside 

It’s like a burning at my back 
without controll of my body and
 no one to love me back 
vanished like dust in the tides of time 

Sedated by knowledge of an unseen world 
and so we 
Ascend! 

I have lost faith and I have lost compassion
 the only passion I have is to grow 
dead inside 

We are condemed , the voices never end 
We’re walking in pathways 
Just know that this could be it, the voices never end 
We’re walking in pathways 
Just know that this could be…
 
The end of everything 
I’ve seen it 
This could be it 
everyday I have thought about i t
our future is…
 
Broken
2.
Libra 05:10
Breath in , breath out 
let the questions find the answers, 
let the riddles of your past find the key
 I have let myself life was only just a dream
 Life is only about dreaming 

An endless cycle of people living in regret 
We are the sons and the daughters, the children 
of the first 

This is all meaningless 
if you do not believe
 when we’ll release the tension 
without progression we’re al l
standing like statues
 like lambs to the slaughter
 raised to lose our feelings 
Deny this 
and start living 

How much longer will it take to conclude the silence
 don’t give them anything 

FIGHT IT! 
don’t give them anything 
FIGHT IT! 
and take reprisal for your dreams
 don’t give them anything 
 
We are the sons and daughters 
we are the children of the first 
Sons and Daughters 

waiting won’t give us results 
for life is a train with no station 
a race without course 

READY, SET, GO! 
absorb everything 
don’t let nothing slip away from you 
GROW!
 Live without regrets Don’t waste your time becoming someone else 

Keep coming uncertainty 
I will receive you with open arms
 Keep coming uncertainly 
is this the end or is it the start? 

you will grow
 GROW!

3.
Every second we live we get closer to the end 
disregard your life and live on
 
In balance 
 try to keep it in 
Imbalance
 trying to be insane
 
When it cracked, when it fell into 
pieces that faded away 
 in the end 
pieces that once were me 
till the end 

Lay with me , lay with me gently 
cause I know I’m standing on the edge 

but I will 
Preserve 
I will descend right from wrong
 find the enemy that hinders inside of me 

HOW CAN I EXPRESS ALL MY FEELINGS WITHOUT TELLING THE TRUTH. HOW CAN I BE REAL TO OTHERS WHEN IM NOT BEING REAL TO MYSELF. DONT YOU WANT TO LIVE YOUR LIFE TO THE FULLEST ? TO LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER LOVED? TO CRY TO EXPRESS TO DESIRE TO CREATE? STOP BEING PESSIMISTIC STOP ARGUING FOR NOTHING START TO BELIEVE IN YOURSELF EXPLORE ! LOVE !STIVE ! SEEK !(AND) LIVE ON ! 

Unobservant 
 wasted away through the cracks 

We are the ones that keep you in equity 
when decisions dim 
We are your company when you’re all alone 

keep your composure
 when you’ll find yourself on the backslide 

In balance 
try to keep it in 
Imbalance
 trying to be insane

4.
Gravity 04:29
You still believe that you wanted
 to get away
 You were asleep but realised 
we’re walking in 

Cirlces around and around 
will we ever escape this eternity 
Circles around and around 
will we ever escape this maze of thoughts
 
As individuals we are divergen t
bizzare and deviant 

Riddles that can’t be solved 
so perculiar, so identical indeed 
Riddles that can’t be solved 
riddles that can’t be dealt with! 

we need gravity to pull us into place 
 
I am not afraid , I won’t be ashamed 
I am not afraid 
Gravity will pull us into place 

Imagine everything is set 
you’ve come to an end 
and all collapse in silence
 
cause it’s the 
Gravity that brings us closer 
We’re like feathers in the wind 
We’re all crawling within but we’re 
alone enough to see that 

Gravity that keeps us closer
5.
Nostalgia 04:16
We’ve turned to servants when we used to be pioneers
 not souls diluted in square screens 
False visions of objects in need, this is what we are indeed 
we’re creating a modern 
BABYLON!
 We think we are gods
 but we are sheep and not sheperds
 Honesty as a trait is gone
 will we ever know where we belong? 

Fathers , where is your melody?
 Are we supposed to follow?

 Ancient ways and traits lost in transcendense of days 
Their voices remain, their faces remain in our world 

Let’s not forget what is sacred
Let’s not forget what remains

We remain
and on the edge of the world
our scars are open

Nostalgic moments are all 
unfinished dreams
When we’ll remember how we used to be?
 
 Remember this elegy
remember the signs

NOSTALGIA

This is our future’s
ELEGY

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Ortensia is Stefanos Paikos, Alexandros Papanikos, Andreas Bakatsias, Filippos Papamarkos, Dimitris Bourgiotis
Music written and performed by Ortensia.
Produced by Anthony Tsigonias at Red Oak Collective
Mixed by Anthony Tsigonias & Randall Karriker at Red Oak Collective.
Mastered by Randall Karriker at Red Oak Collective.
Engineered by Petros Vinakos at Destiny Studios and Pavel Horak at Studios Indies
Album artwork and design by Daniel Wagner
Ortensia would like to thank : everyone who has supported our band, our families and partners for believing us and support us, Anthony Tsgkonias, Petros Vinakos, Romanos Sareli, Daniel Wagner , Pavel Horak and 39 Custom Guitars.

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released December 1, 2016

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Ortensia is an ambient metal band from Athens, formed in early 2015. Our debut EP "Volatile" is going to be released soon...

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